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Messier Objects

NGC Objects (including Messier)

IC Objects

Sharpless Objects

2. Astronomy Picture Of The Day A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

4. Jeff MacQuarrie's Astronomy Home Page Astronomy CCD and astrophotography images of galaxies, nebulae, comets and star fields. Includes information about the objects.http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

5. Mount Wilson Observatory and 150ft solar tower telescopes in the hands of the brilliant scientists who used them revolutionized astronomy through such discoveries ashttp://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

6. Earth And Moon Viewer Images can be generated based on a fullcolour image of the Earth by day Other public domain astronomy and space software available from thehttp://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES New Images CCD images List New photographic images List Deep galaxy images ListImages by object type 50+ all-time favorites Icons Galaxies IconsList Emission nebulae IconsList Reflection nebulae IconsList Dark nebulae IconsList Planetary nebulae IconsList Supernovae IconsList Star clusters IconsList Unusual stars IconsList Star trails etc. IconsList Messier objects List All 400+ NGC/IC objects ListImages by telescope Anglo-Australian List UK Schmidt List INT 2.3m and Hale 5m ListAbout the photographs Colour printsProduct salesDigital filesWWW image use ... AAO HOME PAGE 2005 AAO CALENDAR This page is the gateway to a unique collection of wide-field astronomical photographs, mostly made with the telescopes of the Anglo-Australian Observatory by David MalinNavigating the pages The menu at left gives access to the image files in several ways. The most rapid is from the simple text lists, including a searchable list of all objects, useful if you know what you are looking for. The most convenient (but slightly slower) access is from the thumbnail pictures. Both link directly to the captioned images. If you really don't know what you want, have a look at the 50 favouritesAbout the photographs These are some of the finest wide-field astronomy pictures made with professional telescopes anywhere and every effort has been made to capture the true colours of distant stars, galaxies and nebulae using

8. National Radio Astronomy Observatory The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is one of the world's premier research facilities for radio astronomy.http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

9. Introduction To The Web Nebulae is a little information to help you appreciate the images this is not a tutorial on the astronomy of nebulae. If these images inspire you tohttp://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

10. "Pretty Pictures" Images Final Frontier ( The Ultimate Space Wallpapers ) An archive of over 200 space wallpapers created from NASA and other astronomy images.http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

Michael Brown's Astronomy Images

Comet Hyakutake

A colour image of C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) taken by Michael Brown (University of Melbourne) and Chris Fluke (University of Melbourne) using the 40 inch telescope at Siding Spring. The image was taken on the morning of Sunday 25 Feb 1996 (UT 24.77 Feb 96) after a night imaging for Kuiper Belt Objects. The ion tail is visible, stretching towards the top left of the image. The image is 28 arcmin by 17 arcmin and is a combination of a 60 second R band exposure, an 80 second V band exposure and a 100 second B band exposure. The magnitudes of the comet are approximately R=7.6, V=6.9 and B=7.5.

Eta Carinae Nebula

An image of the Eta Carinae nebula taken by Michael Brown with a CCD camera on the 40-inch telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. This image contains some of the brightest stars known in our galaxy. One of these stars, Eta Carinae, is the very bright star near the centre of the image. A cluster of young stars (Trumpler 14) can be seen at the top right of the image. Click here for a larger image of this nebula . Superb photographs of Eta Carinae can be found at David Malin's web site at the Anglo Australian Observatory.

Michael Brown's Astronomy Images

Comet Hyakutake

A colour image of C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) taken by Michael Brown (University of Melbourne) and Chris Fluke (University of Melbourne) using the 40 inch telescope at Siding Spring. The image was taken on the morning of Sunday 25 Feb 1996 (UT 24.77 Feb 96) after a night imaging for Kuiper Belt Objects. The ion tail is visible, stretching towards the top left of the image. The image is 28 arcmin by 17 arcmin and is a combination of a 60 second R band exposure, an 80 second V band exposure and a 100 second B band exposure. The magnitudes of the comet are approximately R=7.6, V=6.9 and B=7.5.

Eta Carinae Nebula

An image of the Eta Carinae nebula taken by Michael Brown with a CCD camera on the 40-inch telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. This image contains some of the brightest stars known in our galaxy. One of these stars, Eta Carinae, is the very bright star near the centre of the image. A cluster of young stars (Trumpler 14) can be seen at the top right of the image. Click here for a larger image of this nebula . Superb photographs of Eta Carinae can be found at David Malin's web site at the Anglo Australian Observatory.

20. Cooking Up Astronomical Images Her forte is creating colour outreach images from astronomy data and astronomy images are not snapshots and, if you define true colour as what youhttp://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/guest/english/

A Recipe for Cooking Up Astronomical Images Jayanne English Jayanne English currently enjoys the teaching and research activities associated with being an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Her forte' is creating colour outreach images from astronomy data and currently she is enjoying working with radio images, like the Cygnus Region , as part of her research work as a member of the International and Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (I/CGPS) . Jayanne's research interests include the behaviour of gas in groups of galaxies that are interacting with each other, and the how mass and energy are exchanged between a galaxy's spiral disk and its halo. In particular she is obsessed with the I/CGPS data showing a mushroom-shaped cloud bursting more than 1000 light-years out of the plane of the Milky Way.

Introduction

Bold colour images from telescopes act as extraordinary ambassadors for astronomers because they pique the public's curiosity. But are they snapshots documenting physical reality? Or are we looking at artistic space-scapes created by digitally manipulating astronomy images? In my view, each image is a battlefield where the attempts by scientists to represent their discoveries all but drowns out the voice of visual literacy, smothering the colour and composition clues we usually use to read images. Fortunately, sometimes in this battle between the cultures of science and visual art, both sides win. An image is produced that simultaneously contains scientific meaning and is visually engaging.